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A Letter From Saudi Arabia - 1,402 words
... and an Arabic Muslim. When I say diversity, I
basically mean the traditions, the way of
practicing religion. I have come to realize the
fact that Islam is practiced differently in all
the different parts of the world, and the way I
practiced it when I was in the US, is certainly
quite different from what I have seen and
practiced here. Then there are so many customs
which actually have their root in the beliefs of
Islam, which I was totally unaware of. For example
everybody removes their shoes at the doorstep
before entering the house, even when you are
invited to someones home. Umar told me that it is
a tradition that has been carried out for
centuries now10. Speaking of traditions, in ...
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Air Pollution - 1,567 words
Air Pollution Acid rain is a problem that has
plagued earth for years. It is poisoning our
waters, animals, plants, soil, and more. It is a
problem that can not be ignored or it might have
catastrophic results on our environment. Acid rain
is caused by air pollution, which is due to
man-made actions. Scientists have discovered that
air pollution from the burning of fossil fuels is
the major cause of acid rain. Power plants and
factories burn coal and oil, which is used to
produce the electricity we need to heat and light
our homes and to run our electric appliances. We
also burn natural gas, coal, and oil to heat our
homes, and our cars, trucks, boats, and airplanes
use gasoline to run, whic ...
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Air Polution - 390 words
Air Polution AIR POLLUTION Some causes of air
pollution are Smog, Acid Rain and Nuclear
Problems. Smog is a word that discribes a mixture
of smoke and fog. In some places you are advised
to stay indoors when smog is bad. One of these
places is Mexico City in Mexico. It has some the
worst air pollution in the world. If you were to
fly over Mexico City, you would be able to see the
smog hanging over the city. As you were landing
you would be able to smell and see the smog in
side the airplane.Common air pollution is carbon
monoxide which is found in most city
streets.Carbon monoxide is mostly from cars and is
highly poisonous. The combustion of coal, oil, and
gasoline accounts for much of the ...
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An Enemy Of The People By Henrik Ibsen - 546 words
An Enemy Of The People By Henrik Ibsen An Enemy of
the People, a play written by Henrik Ibsen, is
about a small town on the southern coast of Norway
and how it perceives and accepts truth. The town
is governed by Peter Stockmann and doctored by his
younger brother, Thomas. The main conflict flares
up between these two siblings and then spreads
throughout the town as they both try to do best by
the community. Dr. Thomas Stockmann is a
public-minded doctor in a small town famous for
its public baths. He discovers that the water
supply for the baths is contaminated and has
probably been the cause of some illness among the
tourists who are the town's economic lifeblood. In
his effort to clean up ...
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An Essay On An Economics Article - 776 words
An Essay On An Economics Article There is a major
debate brewing in the Florida water districts. The
discussion concerns a company called Azurix and
their novel offer. Azurix is a spin-off the huge
Houston based gas and oil company Enron. The
offer: in exchange for financing a portion of the
four billion-dollar everglades clean up, Azurix
acquires the ability to sell the water that they
store as part of the project. This seemingly
innocuous plan can have huge affects on Floridas
economy. The privatization of the water management
in Florida could work in a positive manner and
eliminate the projected shortages by creative
management, or it can act negatively and make it
harder and more expensi ...
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Bally Ground Water - 485 words
Bally Ground Water BALLY GROUNDWATER CONTAMINATION
The Bally ground water site is a municipal water
supply well field in the borough of Bally in Berks
county, near the Philadelphia metropolitan area.
The Bally well field and the nearby springs to the
northwest of the site are the public water sources
for approximately 1,200 residents. The area near
the site includes wetlands to the north and a
manufacturing plant, Bally Engineered Structures,
1,000 feet to the south of municipal well number
3. Since the 1930s, degreasing solvents containing
methylene chloride, TCA, Methanol, Toluene, and
TCE have been used in manufacturing at this plant.
In 1982, a state water quality check identified
the pl ...
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Beginning Of House Music - 1,254 words
Beginning Of House Music Early House To trace the
origins of todays house music, one needs to time
travel back to the 80s, following a bizarre trail
that spans the Atlantic ocean, hits the
Mediterranean dance floors of Ibiza, sneak into
the backdoors of New Yorks recording studios, and
have V.I.P. passes to the clubs of Chicago and
London. Since we cant deliver any of that, heres a
brief retelling of the birth of modern dance
music. House musics earliest roots are found in
the musical hotspots of Chicago around 1985.
Transplanted New York DJ Frankie Knuckles had a
regular gig at a club called The Warehouse.
Knuckles would tinker with soul and disco tunes by
laying down a drum machine-generat ...
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California Water - 1,385 words
California Water What do we use all this water
for? Of all the water that falls to California,
60% is immediately returned to the atmosphere by
evaporation or native plant use. The rest runs off
into rivers, lakes, streams and the water table,
where it is available for human use. We will
explain what happens to all this water, show
exactly how much water we do use, and give ways to
reduce water use in and around your home. The
single largest user of water is industry.
Industries use 46% of our annual water supply. One
industrial use is manufacturing, in various ways
such as cooling of materials, washing of
materials, products, tools, and equipment. For
example, by the time a Sunday paper get ...
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Chernobyl - 1,198 words
Chernobyl April 26th 1986 marked the date of the
worst nuclear accident to ever occur. Chernobyl, a
nuclear power plant in Russia was undergoing
routine safety tests that envolved running the
reactor on less then full power, followed by a
standard shut down. At Chernobyl's reactor number
4 a specific test was designed to show that a
coasting turbine could produce enough power to
pump coolant through the reactor core while
waiting for electricity from diesel generators.
During the test turbine feed valves were closed to
initiate turbine coasting, and automatic control
rods were withdrawn from the core. When the steam
valves to the turbine close, the pressure in the
reactor should go up causin ...
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Chrominimum - 574 words
Chrominimum Chris Nicholatos 11/29/99 Mr. Cicero
Block-D Chromium Chromium is a metal found in
natural deposits as ores containing other
elements. Chromium is a steel-gray, hard metal
that is very brittle. It is classified as a heavy
metal. After its refined from the ore chromite its
compounds are used in leather tanning and
manufacturing of chromic acid, pigments, and
corrosion-resistant chrome products. The greatest
use of chromium is in metal alloys such as
magnetic tapes, paint pigments, cement, paper, and
stainless steel. It is also used as an ingrediant
in drilling mud, which is used to drill oil wells.
Humans do need a certain amount of trivalent
chromium to maintain good health. Alth ...
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Class Vs Caste - 1,247 words
Class Vs. Caste This essay will address the
critical thinking questions of chapter six in the
course text. It will address the terms class and
caste systems, white blue and pink-collared jobs,
the working and chronically poor, the truly
disadvantaged, the culture of poverty,
necessities, surplus, and absolute and relative
poverty. Also discussed is the relationship that
these terms have with one another and some
personal reflections on how the puzzle of solving
these problems can come into fruitation. There are
two types of stratified systems in the world
today. The first of these is the caste system. The
course text defines a caste system as a "fixed
arrangement of strata from the most to t ...
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Concepts Of Lifetime Fitness - 664 words
Concepts of Lifetime Fitness September 1, 1997
Homeostasis is the state of equilibrium in which
the internal environment of the human body remains
relatively constant. Two excellent examples of
homeostasis are how the body maintains a constant
temperature and blood pressure during strenuous
physical activity or exercise. Although there are
many other activities in the body that display
homeostasis, I will only discuss these two.
Temperature in the human body is usually kept at
approximately 37 degrees Celsius. To maintain such
a strict temperature, the body has a few functions
to combat the outside elements. People cannot make
themselves cold as readily as make themselves hot,
however I will ...
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Countering Terrorism - 1,642 words
Countering Terrorism Countering Terrorism There
are currently more than 1500 terrorist
organizations and groups being monitored in the
United States. Terrorists by definition kill
people and destroy property in order to advance a
political agenda. We must make every effort to
protect American citizens from these attacks. In
the future that will require both state of the art
measures to monitor terrorist activities and the
movement of materials used for these activities,
but also response scenarios in the event of an
actual incident. The United States has
consistently set a good example of no negotiations
with terrorists and attempting to bring alleged
terrorists to trial. We need to support ...
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Dangers Of Fluoridation - 662 words
Dangers Of Fluoridation How would you feel if
someone came along, and made you take medicine
without your knowledge or consent? Saying that
this would be beneficial without a notification as
to what this was, or any background information on
it. How would you feel if politicians in your city
have benn adding a corrosive poison into your
drinking water? They do this because they believe
it will benefit your health in the future? Well
believeit or not, this has been happenin in many
cities around the country for a long time now.
Many people are not aware of the term
fluoridation. In the Webster's World Dictionary,
Second Edition, one can find the definition of
fluoridation as the act of adding ...
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Desertification - 1,164 words
Desertification Desertification is the spread of
desert-like conditions in arid and semi-arid
areas, due to human influence and/or climatic
change. Some of the natural causes of
desertification are wind erosion, climatic
conditions, and scarce water supply. There is a
grave difference between areas where vegetation
has been retained and surrounding vegetation. For
example, "Nefta in southern Tunisia, the coverage
of vegetation inside an area fenced 60 years ago
is 85%, in contrast to 5% outside the area."
Approximately one-third of the earth's land
surface is semi-arid or arid. This is the land
where desertification occurs; not in any of the
natural desert zones. "Were these lands to continu ...
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Earth Planet - 2,128 words
... salt dissolved in the oceans is, on the
average, 34.5 percent by weight. About the same
percentage can be obtained if three quarters of a
teaspoon of salt is dissolved in eight ounces of
water. Water Supply for the Earth Water that
evaporates from the surface of the oceans into the
atmosphere provides most of the rain that falls on
the continents. Steadily moving air currents in
the Earth's atmosphere carry the moist air inland.
When the air cools, the vapour condenses to form
water droplets. These are seen most commonly as
clouds. Often the droplets come together to form
raindrops. If the atmosphere is cold enough,
snowflakes form instead of raindrops. In either
case, water that has tr ...
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Eartquakes - 1,496 words
Eartquakes Earthquakes: Why They Occur And How To
Prepare For Them An earthquake is one of the most
powerful natural disasters known to man.
Earthquakes are so powerful that they can knock
down buildings and bridges as well as change river
routes and cause landslides. With all the damage
earthquakes cause the only way to protect oneself
from them is to be prepared and well educated
about them. Since they cannot be predicted one
must always be prepared for them. Strict building
codes in earthquake prone areas also help to
minimize the property damage caused during an
earthquake. Earthquakes throughout history have
caused several millions of deaths as well as
severe property damage. Earthquake ...
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Effects Of Genetic Engineering On Agriculture - 1,696 words
Effects Of Genetic Engineering On Agriculture The
Effects of Genetic Engineering on Agriculture
Agribiotechnology is the study of making altered
agricultural products. Agribusiness is trying to
alter the genes of already existing products to
try to enhance the biocompetitiveness and
adaptability of crops by enhancing plant
resistance to drought, salinity, disease, pests
and herbicides. They are going to try to enhance
their growth, productivity, nutrient value, and
chemical composition. The old way of doing this
was through selective breeding, special
fertilizer, and hormones. This seems now somewhat
outdated with todays technology. Genetic
engineering comes with many downfalls. Increased
pr ...
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Emerging Waterborne Pathogens - 668 words
Emerging Waterborne Pathogens In todays food
preparation world waterborne pathogens are
becoming a real threat. Why? Simply because in
todays culture people are quick to blame the food
industry for most cases of disintary or other ill
effects caused by bacteria. In this paper several
things will be discussed. To understand what Im
trying to say, you must understand a few key
terms. First lets define waterborne pathogen. A
waterborne pathogen is a micro-organism whose
ability to cause disease has recently been
identified. Now that you know what a waterborne
pathogen is lets name a few. 1. Bacteria in the
form of, Arcobacter Butzleri Helicobacter Pylori
And E. Coli 2. Viruses Rotaviruses and A ...
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Enviromental Tradeoffs Of Mtbe Speech Outline - 1,003 words
Enviromental Tradeoffs Of Mtbe - Speech Outline
The Environmental Tradeoffs of MTBE I Intro.: A
Good afternoon everyone. If you would, imagine
that you are going to spend a day on the lake.
When you got there, you looked up into the sky to
see, not a bright grinning sun staring back at
you, but instead the gray layer of smog that so
dominates the central valley. Now, go back and
imagine that when you got to the lake, there is a
beautiful sun high in the sky, but instead, now
there is a strange turpentine like odor radiating
from the lake. B 1.This is the controversy that
exists over the oxygenate additive in gasoline
know as Methyl Tertiart Butyl Ether, or otherwise
know as MTBE. 2.MTBE has ...
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